WITHHOLD

v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To hold back; to restrain; to keep from action. Withhold, O sovereign prince, your hasty hand From knitting league with him. Spenser.

2.
v.

To retain; to keep back; not to grant; as, to withhold assent to a proposition. Forbid who will, none shall from me withhold Longer thy offered good. Milton.

3.
v.

To keep; to maintain; to retain. [Obs.] To withhold it the more easily in heart. Chaucer.

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